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06/04/2026

The funding comes from a one-time state investment of $25 million and at least $12.5 million in matching federal funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which the Oregon Health Authority announced it had secured late last week.

Roughly half of all births in Oregon are covered by the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program, which is facing cuts under the Trump administration

06/04/2026

Despite passing some of the nation’s first laws barring federal law enforcement agents from concealing their identities, Oregon and Washington have yet to receive the same response from the Trump administration as other Democratic states.

Some legal observers say the lack of court action is a function of how Oregon and Washington’s laws are supposed to be enforced.

06/04/2026

On Friday, Portland-based animal rights activists surpassed the required 117,000 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot — submitting more than 126,000 signatures to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office.

Initiative Petition 28 aims to expand animal cruelty to include livestock slaughtering, fishing, research.

06/03/2026

Several camping and day-use areas along the Upper McKenzie River are open again after a nine-year closure.

06/03/2026

Initial projections predicted 750,000 soccer fans would visit Seattle during the World Cup tournament. But a recent survey taken by the American Hotel and Lodging Association showed 80% of respondents reported hotel bookings were tracking below initial forecasts.

A recent survey taken by the American Hotel and Lodging Association showed that 80% of respondents reported hotel bookings were tracking below initial forecasts.

06/03/2026

Portland attorneys are challenging the land use violation order at the ICE building, calling it “textbook gamesmanship."

The owner of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building has blocked the city from ruling on a land use violation against his property, a ruling that could have imposed steep fines against him.

06/03/2026

The vote comes several weeks after University of Oregon President Karl Scholz announced that he wants the school to reduce its annual budget by around $65 million.

At a trustees meeting Monday, the university president said the estimated budget shortfall for next year is just around $23 million. But he said out-of-state enrollment is below historical norms for the second year in a row, and it’s unlikely to bounce back.

06/03/2026

In what a scientist called "a crippling loss of information," the Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of ocean sensors, including Oregon and Washington's coast. The network helps scientists monitor everything from ocean circulation and climate change to ecosystems and weather.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors, including those along Oregon and Washington's coasts, funded by the National Science Foundation. An expert told The Associated Press Tuesday that it’s a crippling loss of information.

06/03/2026

The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.

Nearly 2,000 of Portland’s subsidized units sat vacant and unused at last count. The same situation has repeated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver. Economists and other academic researchers have been warning for decades that this was precisely the sort of problem that the Low-In...

06/03/2026

Leaders at Portland State University have revealed more about their vision for a performing arts venue, hotel and conference center on their downtown campus.

PSU officials say they’ve lined up a likely development partner and private funding for a hotel and conference center should the arts center move forward.